Her experience as a ged teacher at rickers prison. Rebcca solnit offer her opinion on changes in the feminist movement. This program contains language some may find offensive. [inaudible conversations] good evening, friends. The latest in the series of events produced by the friends at berkeley arts and letters. We are privileged to have them as a regular contributer to our cultural events. Evan is the boss and you have him and his volunteers to thank for all these wonderful events. [applause] how many of you have been in this hall before . A fair number. That is good. How many havent and havent a clue what this place is . Okay. That is great. I am going to take 30 seconds to tell you about the club. It was founded in 1898 by a group of berkeley women who were concerned about the plans the city fathers had for laying a grid over this thing and paving and grating. Instead they got active, civically active, we think we need more of that these days but they were able to get the city to tu
And an overwhelming tragedy. Host when we rise my life in the movement. Cleve jones is the author. Live coverage of the 22nd annual l. A. Times festival of bucks held on the campus of universities Southern California you can watch the full schedule today at booktv. Org we will be doing a call in later on the book the mother of all questions but right now lets go inside to another panel on writing history. Live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] i am not putting down fiction i have aspiration for anybody who can write a great fiction that they were talking about what kind of book tells the story about what you already know . Widely read the book widely read books about what you know about because you need to know more. So of the great writers of fiction that meursault popular youre not reading the information and to see what happens in these books will we are discussing today with the authors is how they get to that conclusion and make those choices through a massive sweep of
Reached a point there is other things. I grew up with misogyny. I have had hundreds of women come tell me their stories of being lawyers and scientists and having guys who knownothing explain the profession. There is silencing that will keep them from speaking up so there is so much other science including beliting and excluding and if there are no women on the Supreme Court as we are not until a few deck aped decades ago then a womans point of view isnt represented. We have a senate that is 80 male in a county that is 57 female. There are more men named john who are the ceo of fortune 1500 companies than there are women. Mansplaning . Yeah. Where did that come from . The bloger who made it was originally from los angeles. It was in response to a blog pu published in 2008 by valley times and the word was off and running. It is now in 34 languages including swedish and icelandic and it is pard of the language. It is in the Oxford English dictionary. I am proud to have contributed to the
It causes them to occupy a space that doesnt exist. We saw that with the recent election. Criticized for things that dont come up for male candidates. Like rape there is like a willingness to take white people on credit and to keep it there. Anger is part of how men express being powerful and showing leadership so does that mean women cant have leadership or does it mean that we have to redefine leadership but in the mean time it becomes a huge handicap for women candidates. 2016 election, do you you think there was a sexist angle to it . Oh, my, god was there every. There are plenty of reasons to criticize health care for how she ran the campaign and lot of other things that happened but boy was there a lot of misogyny on the left and right. I still see men on social media who are what i would call extremely motional on Hillary Clinton and something about her and her run for the president that came to upset them. There is a lot of misogyny in how the media covered her and a level of p
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